The OLYMPIAN ran aground in 1903 in the Straits of Magellan. She was built at Wilmington, DE, in 1883. She was a steel sidewheel steamer, 261.5 feet in length with a beam of 40 feet (73 feet over the paddle wheels). She served the Portland-Ilwaco route for several years, had made voyages one season to southeastern Alaska, subsequently returning to the Victoria run, after which she was laid up, the sidewheel method of propulsion having become outdated for large vessels and her expenses being extremely high. She had been sold to East Coast owners and was on her way to be delivered to them when she was lost. (pg. 94) The Steamer EMMA HAYWARD was abandoned in 1900. (pg. 64) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).